11.   If the rebel advances of the last week have stunned Kabila, however, the insurgents have also suffered some setbacks.

12.   In Kinshasa, the news of the rebel advance on Tuesday set off a late-afternoon wave of panic.

13.   The group south of Kisangani is the biggest body of refugees known to remain in Zaire after seven months of rebel advances.

14.   The Hutus now scattered around Kisangani are the largest group still remaining in Zaire, having been pushed farther and farther west by the rebel advance.

15.   The French position represents a pullback from statements of previous days about drawing a line in the sand here against further rebel advances.

16.   The Mobutu government responded to the rebel advance Wednesday with a call for peace.

17.   U.S. warplanes are providing air strikes in support of the rebel advance on Mazar-e-Sharif.

18.   A surprise rebel advance in recent days has once again shaken Sierra Leone, and insurgent commanders are vowing to storm the capital.

19.   Angola and Namibia also sent troops and tanks to help stop rebel advances and mount an offensive against rebel positions in the dense jungles of eastern Congo.

20.   Angola and Namibia, too, sent troops and tanks to help stop rebel advances.